The “Evil-God Challenge” aims to question the goodness of God and cast doubts on the reasonableness of traditional monotheism. In the midst of a prolific debate between defenders and critics, this article intends to show that the challenge lacks the clarity and rigor in some of its fundamental aspects necessary to be convincing: the narrow conception of rationality on which it is based, its confused notion of an evil god, of good and evil, the difficulty in developing a coherent eschatology and, finally, that the maltheist “religion” has no followers, no tradition, and no scriptures hardly plays in its favor.
